QuaternionsRock

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[–] QuaternionsRock 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your chickens are definitely on a different diet than factory farmed ones, haha

[–] QuaternionsRock 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

FPGA

Awww, I thought this was an ASIC. Slapping an FPGA on a PCIe card is decidedly less cool. Still, props for creating a usable GPU circuit description, that must have been a nightmare.

[–] QuaternionsRock 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s nothing good here.

I’m not convinced this was meant to be sarcastic

[–] QuaternionsRock 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The benefits massively outweigh the risks when it comes to open source ad blockers (lets be honest, we’re all talking about uBO), but limiting your attack surface is a very widely practiced concept in cubersecurity, and there’s no situation where it is totally without merit.

[–] QuaternionsRock 5 points 10 months ago

They also underestimate how many times I’ve watched my favorite movie lol

[–] QuaternionsRock 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you count it is as a 20$ a month movie ticket, you could pledge/buy a Hammerhead in around 2 years.

Jesus Christ lmao

Yeah man, I could enjoy a Blu-ray of my favorite movie for a comparable amount of time but that wouldn’t make me any less of a moron to buy a $400 Blu-ray.

[–] QuaternionsRock 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] QuaternionsRock 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, is this not the same thing as cost minus depreciation?

Again, I don’t know the first thing about this subject, so I’m trying to relate it to, like, home insurance. If your roof starts leaking all over, they don’t give you the full amount required to replace it, since shingles need to be replaced every couple decades. They give you the amount minus a linear multiplier of how long it’s been since they were last replaced.

[–] QuaternionsRock 2 points 10 months ago

I’m not extremely familiar with it, but I think X11 qualifies. I think it was determined that HDR support would be basically impossible to implement.

[–] QuaternionsRock 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn’t they only have to pay the depreciated value? After all, a replacement bridge will be more valuable than the one that was destroyed.

Legitimate question btw, I have no idea how… bridge finances work.

[–] QuaternionsRock 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why are people so afraid of fixing things?

There’s a lot of answers to that question.

Device/tool repair is typically not taught in schools, and from my perspective seems far less likely to be taught at home than it was in previous generations.

Most people have substantially less free time than in previous decades. Sure, some things only take 10-30 minutes to repair, but learning how to make the repair is often a significant time investment.

Devices and tools are intentionally designed to be less reparable, if only to cut costs (e.g. using glue instead of screws). Less obvious repairs take more time to learn.

Lastly, a lot of people never learned how to do any of this; they just took their broken stuff down to a VCR repair. Repair shops nearly don’t exist anymore, and the ones that do charge a substantial sum to repair modern devices. It’s often more financially prudent to buy a new laptop than it is to replace the screen of a four-year-old one, for example.

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